🏁 We Win as One: Leading M&A With Integrity

They told me we were acquiring a company - and that we needed the integration to feel “seamless.”

Fast.

That word stuck.

I’d been on the other side of acquisitions before. Hostile ones. I’d seen people ignored, devalued, dismissed. But this time I had a say - and I refused to let it be business as usual.

So I built a rollout plan.
One that respected both companies, their people, and the emotional weight of change.

I even mailed out team t-shirts that said:

“We Win as One.”

Because that was the point.
If one side faltered, we all did.

That mindset became the foundation of how we moved - through systems, reporting structures, team rituals, even language.

It was more than strategy.
It was leadership that worked — and it stuck.